Navy Reads
An unofficial blog in support of the Navy Professional Reading Program and related books.
Saturday, September 21, 2013
Reflecting Heroism, September 2013
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By Bill Doughty This has been a month to reflect on the meaning of service, sacrifice and courage in the face of violence. The week ...
Saturday, September 7, 2013
Back to Basics: Salty, Fresh History
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Reviews by Bill Doughty This week and next the U.S. Navy is making and living history. At Pearl Harbor-Hickam, the People’s Republic of...
Sunday, August 11, 2013
Picturing the War of 1812, ‘Rise of U.S. Navy’
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Review by Bill Doughty National Geographic’s gorgeous “The War of 1812 and the Rise of the U.S. Navy” is a coffee-table book that is ...
Saturday, July 27, 2013
Lessons from Korea: ‘This Kind of War’
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Review by Bill Doughty The Marines remember Korea. Lessons learned in frozen battlefields and bloody ridges of Korea influenced a gene...
Saturday, July 20, 2013
‘Did You Have a Friend on the Good Reuben James?’
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by Bill Doughty Woody Guthrie wrote “Sinking of the Reuben James” in 1942, a poetic ode to a mighty destroyer, the first American ship ...
Sunday, July 7, 2013
Boston Bombing Roots
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by Bill Doughty In thinking about the “why” behind the terrorist attacks by radical Islamic fundamentalists, can at least part of the an...
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